News Briefs 09-10-2009

Posted by Perceval at 09:31, 09 Oct 2009

Splashdown ballsup?

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NASA crashes on the moon...
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Posted by Redoubt on 09 Oct 2009 at about 11:44.

˙˙˙ǝɔuo uɐɥʇ ǝɹoɯ puɐ 'oƃɐ sɹɐǝʎ 05 sıɥʇ pıp suɐıssnɹ ǝɥʇ ʇnq ˙˙˙

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"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

The Illudium-Q Explosive Space Modulator has been stolen!
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Posted by Redoubt on 09 Oct 2009 at about 13:17.

From the AP -

NASA makes as-yet unseen hit on moon with probes

But the big live public splash NASA had hoped for didn't quite happen. Screens got fuzz and no immediate pictures of the crash or the six-mile plume of lunar dust that the mission was all about.

NASA officials said their instruments were working, but the planned live photos were missing.

Nearly half an hour after the crash, NASA was promising pictures updated to its Web site. But so far all NASA had was "images on the way in," said NASA spokesman Grey Hautaluoma.
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NASA did broadcast live pictures of a moon that was getting closer to LCROSS, but no plume.

Until the glitch with live images, NASA was riding high, reporting no trouble at the Ames Research Center in California, where the mission was being controlled.

I wonder how this will be explained if those images never arrive or... there wasn't any moon-shattering kaboom to begin with?

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Soft cheese? Hard cheese!
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Posted by Perceval on 09 Oct 2009 at about 15:25.

Until they do, plenty of room for conspiracy theories ;)

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Does this mean...
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Posted by Delaiah on 10 Oct 2009 at about 20:56.

...that NASA CUT the cheese?

cleary
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Posted by earthling on 12 Oct 2009 at about 06:01.

Clearly the lunar missile defense worked. Finally, it's about time. The lunarites have been paying taxes to fund missile defence for billions of years, and all they got was craters.

Until this time. Now let's hope they don't get mad. Or at least that they don't get even.

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Posted by Anonymous on 11 Oct 2009 at about 23:39.

What are they smoking? Wacked out nut-jobs have taken over Christianity if that particular Bible mutilation occurs.

Hang on! I think they already have taken over...

That was me
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Posted by qraal on 11 Oct 2009 at about 23:40.

Forgot to log-in.

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